Jessica found this incredibly steampunk Norman pattern and wonders if anyone has information they can share about Mrs. N.R. Norman, inventress. This is Centennial Pattern No. 8, for those keeping score at home, and is from the 1890s. It may be a St. Louis company — it's marked St. Louis. Any information? Please leave a comment! (Here's a .)

Speaking of comments, Becky O. left one on Friday pointing us to this by about the different on-demand fabric printers. Exhaustive and well-researched, definitely worth checking out.

Kate found the (not dress) I was thinking of. Great for Rolling Stones fans!

Kristen sent this link to . So cool. (Although probably itchy.)

sent me a link to book. (It's a book about different attachments FOR your machine, not about fostering your attachment TO your machine.) I have purchased mine, will review when I get it!

Lucy (who is the person behind Home Movie Day London) sent this link to a digitised (British spelling, in Lucy's honour). Lovely!

A few self-promoty links:

If you like words, and are on Facebook, might you not consider being a fan of on Facebook? Our fan page is . If you're not a Facebooker but still want Wordnik words of the day, that link is . But the only place you can see the Wordnik LIST of the day (a collection of related words) is on Twitter:. [If you're looking for me on Twitter, I'm for word-type stuff, for "what-I-had-for-lunch" type stuff.] (Whew! That's a lot of social media in one place …)

Somehow I managed to get on the catalog mailing list and this shirtdress caught my eye. LOVE this color green:

I can't tell if it has pockets or not, but it really does look nice. The whole catalog seems full of surprises, including some great in one kajillion colors and some .

I haven't shopped at Talbot's in ages — it was always a bit off in a way I think our friends in the UK would call "mumsy." So either they have gotten better, or I have now aged into their target demo. Or both. Both is always possible.

The tone-on-tone of this is really gorgeous. (Click on the image to go to the blog and see a full-length view.) I would love to see something like this on a non-princessy wedding dress, say a simple silk sheath in cream with cream roses along the waist and hem in taffeta or even organza.

While I'm at Colette's blog, I would like to point out how cute these little are. Adorable!

And speaking of embellishments, I *think* I saw recently a dress with a heart on it, where the heart was made of random sizes of heart-shaped buttons. Does that sound familiar to anyone? Or did I just make it up?

Yes, I am still , so it's time for me to share another roundup of them with you.

In some very exciting loafer news, Bass has finally come out with a low-vamp penny loafer (the ). I wish they were an update (but not ) on the classic cordovan , a shoe I wore constantly from elementary school through high school, but you can't have everything. (The menfolks can have this spring, though.)

What you can have is them in white, which I think is really cute for summer:

And being Bass, they come in wide widths, which I appreciate, and they have more padding than most of the other loafers I've seen. (You may have to search a bit for the white ones — I see them intermittently on eBay.)

I like these too, but I'm not sold on the suede, and all the non-suede options are fake croc. I really, really hate fake croc (and real croc, for that matter).

I haven't had a chance to try these on (unlike the Brookfields) so I think the vamp may be too high.

These are super-cute:

They're on the expensive side (~$100) but are on sale everywhere right now in random colors (including the dreaded croc) and a .

(The Via Spigas, with that wonderful snipped-off 1960s toe, don't look so good on a wider foot, I'm sorry to say. If you have narrow feet, they will probably look fabulous.)

This is cute, except for the lug sole. (Why, Michael? Why?) And they're very expensive, at almost $200:

Aldo has a , too, in black, brown, and red (red's on sale!) but I don't like the trompe l'oeil nature of the penny slot (you see how picky I am?):

are a little too 1990s for my taste, but maybe the 90s are coming back, now that we've nearly exhausted the 1980s revival?

If you're out and about and see any other penny loafers, please drop me a link!